TY - BOOK AU - Betsky, Aaron AU - Shaughnessy, Adrian AU - Staal, Gert TI - Thonik: Why We Design SN - 9783037785560 U1 - DSGN PY - 2019/// CY - Zurich PB - Lars Müller Publishers KW - Design KW - Design Education KW - Design History KW - Graphic design KW - Thonik design studio N1 - Everybody is a designer! But why? Why do we color, organize, and form the world around us - and why do we call that a profession? In this book, Thonik, an Amsterdam-based studio led by lauded designers Nikki Gonnissen and Thomas Widdershoven, researches eleven personal reasons why they design - from the need to create impact to a constant search for independence; from the benefits of systems to the urgency of play. Why We Design looks back on twenty-five years of design practice and speculates on the future of graphic design ER -